Friday, Feb. 5: Facebook claims 3.57 degrees of separation

3.57 degrees of separation | NFL wants female execs | Redstone replaced as Viacom chair | Indictments for Ammon Bundy and the gang | Mexico has Chapo questions for Kate del Castillo | Shkreli defiant in front of Congress | Obama proposes oil tax, not received well by Republicans | Democrats block energy bill | Sanders and Clinton square off in NH | Big NH lead for Bernie | A tradition of SOS classified emails on private accounts | Iowa newspaper wants audit of Democratic caucuses | Impoverished Ben Carson campaign | Fiorina kept out of Saturday’s debate | Russia says Turkey plans to invade Syria | Not true, says Turkey | Saudi Arabia offering to fight ISIS | Russian airstrikes in Syria Suicide bomber behind Somali plane explosion | No-nudity Playboy coming soon | Serial season one revival | Matt LeBlanc hosting Top Gear | NFL headed to Mexico next year | New Wiz album out | The end of $5 footlongs | Unclaimed $63 million lottery prize | Manning hired PI spies | Girlfriend described Manziel assault | But he won’t be charged | Founder of Earth, Wind & Fire dead | Voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck dead | Apparent suicide by BMX biker Dave Mirra | New iPhone trade-in policy | Twitter GIF button | Bad day for LinkedIn | Overdue forgiveness from Chicago Public Library

Thursday, Feb. 4: Nondairy ice cream flavors for Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s nondairy ice cream | Case against Cosby moves forward | Adnan seeks new trial | Durst going away | Three-parent embryos OK’d by ethicists | Twelve-country trade deal signed | Obama speaks against anti-Muslim rhetoric | Rand Paul drops out | So does Santorum | Kasich will too if NH goes badly | Hillary and Bernie duel about ‘progressive’ | More debates approved | Trump says Cruz stole Iowa | Trump nominated for Nobel prize, maybe? | NY prison escaper gets max sentence | Guilty plea for Army post bomb plot | Assange will turn himself in if UN rules against him | Venezuela in bad shape | Syrian peace talks put on hold | CBS’s chairman replaced | New Delta CEO | Hamilton at the Grammys | FiveThirtyEight’s documentary series | Three more Fast and Furious movies in the pipeline | YouTube’s paid service releasing shows soon | Nintendo’s new app | Longer Instagram video ads | College football National Signing Day | Russell Wilson is UW’s graduation speaker | Big game for Curry | Dunk contest participants announced | Stabler had CTE | NYC looking into streetcars east of the East River | Chinese woman gets flight to herself | Zayn and Gigi sitting in a tree

Wednesday, Feb 3: Uber gets a new logo

Uber’s rebranding | Sexually transmitted Zika in Dallas | Cosby wants charges from 2005 incident dropped | Accuser in civil suit drops case | Hillary scrapes by with win in Iowa | Thanks in large part to coin flips | Bernie not ready to concede Iowa | Cruz apologizes for campaign deceiving voters about Carson | Big night for cable news | Details from California prison break | Teenage girl was stabbed in Va. Tech murder | North Korea’s plans to launch | Hole blown through airborne plane in Somalia | Report says that Manning told friend he’s retiring | Browns washing their hands of Manziel | Golden State could be a favorite to sign Durant | Mercer player killed | First US Olympian to compete in a hijab | Groundhog’s forecast | Winslet says Jack could have survived in Titanic | Journalistic malfeasance at The Intercept | Brazil wants Neymar for tax evasion | Date set for Apple’s next reveal | Amazon opening actual bookstores | Yahoo job-cutting announcement | Big fall for Dow Jones | Pentagon ramping up spending | Airstrikes gun down 29 ISIS fighters | Military officials want women to be draft eligible | NYC cop ran a prostitution ring | Broncos player sent home for prostitution involvement | Film lineup out for SXSW | The People vs. OJ premieres | Drake’s Hotline Bling Super Bowl ad | Cindy Crawford not retiring | McCarthy said she wasn’t invited to Gilmore Girls revival | Gaga gets Super Bowl anthem | Corden hosting the Tonys

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Tuesday, Feb. 2: Chipotle cleared of E. coli

CDC says E. coli outbreak at Chipotle is over | Cruz takes Iowa for GOP | Hillary barely wins for Democrats | O’Malley dropping out | As is Huckabee | White House spending $1 billion to end cancer | Defense dept. wants $7 billion to fight ISIS | Justice dept. looking into San Francisco police | Zika declared a global health emergency | Brazil warns pregnant women about Olympics | Snacks coming back to coach | Ryanair flying high, pricing low | Brits can edit human embryo genes | Bombings cause oil spills in Nigeria | Deadly suicide attack in Kabul | NY Uber drivers strike | Delta flight attendant brawl | One death in Houston plane crash | Facebook changing News Feed algorithm | Alphabet is the world’s most valuable company | James Bond and Adele help out Sony | Yahoo hurting | Justin Tuck retiring | Duke out of the top 25 is a first since ’07 | No. 2 UNC loses | Suns fire Hornacek | Man City hires Guardiola | Earlier live SportsCenters coming next week | CBS and NBC get Thursday Night Football games next year | Cindy Crawford retiring from modeling | Adele not down with Trump | Top Chef renewed for 14th season | DiCaprio’s next gig

Monday, Feb. 1: Big weekend for Kung Fu Panda 3

Good weekend for Kung Fu Panda 3 | Trump leads Iowa Republican poll heading into caucus day | Hillary leads Democrats | NYT endorses Hillary | And Kasich | More Democratic debates | Turkey and Russia bicker about airspace | Merkel says refugees should return after Syrian civil war | Swedes attack migrants | Migrants drown in Aegean sea | ISIS attacks in Syria | Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria | Post-ebola relief not given as promised | Serena upset in Aussie finals | Djokovic gets his 11th major | AHLer wins NHL All-Star Game MVP | Russell Wilson wins Pro Bowl MVP | Ole Miss hit with violations | Megatron retiring | John Terry done with Chelsea after this year | Chargers stay in SD next season | Manziel gets police visit after incident with his girlfriend | Baylor ignored sexual assault complaints | Escaped prisoners captured | Va. Tech students charged with killing teenage girl | One dead after biker brawl | Facebook banning private gun sales | Cuban homes getting high-speed internet | Obama wants coders to start young | MIT team wins Hyperloop contest | Louis CK releases web series | Two Jefferson Airplane deaths on same day | McCarthy and Kanye on SNL in two weeks | NickToons movie bringing back old favorites | Gilmore Girls making a comeback